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The Case for Digital Minimalism 0
- Culture, Entertainment, Family, Featured, MomThink
- February 9, 2026
Millions of Americans start each morning by staring at a six-inch screen. Then they spend the day working in front of a 16-inch screen. They end the day watching a 60-inch screen. This isn’t just a dystopian nightmare, like the one depicted in Disney’s “WALL-E.” It’s real life for a lot of people. It was
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Is There Any Such Thing as ‘Good Divorce’?1
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink
- January 11, 2026
If you ever want to get an interesting – sometimes shocking – glimpse of today’s culture, try reading the advice columns that populate many of the nation’s newspapers. A letter to Slate’s “Dear Prudence” column caught my eye today. The letter writer explained that a friend (“Chrissy”) in her late 30s was still dealing with the effects of her parents’ divorce, roughly
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The Joy of Being the “Default Parent”0
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink
- January 10, 2026
Author and mother Gina Bontempo noted on X recently that the online uproar over a woman being the “default parent” in her child’s life smacks of the lie that men and women can, and should, be treated as interchangeable. For those unfamiliar with internet lingo, the phenomenon in question is as old as mothers and
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7 Christmas Traditions to Bring Back This Year 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink
- December 23, 2025
In his beautiful essay “A Remaining Christmas,” author Hilaire Belloc reminds us of the importance of intergenerational traditions that surround and adorn holy days like a wreath. Christmas traditions keep us grounded in our bodily human nature, Belloc explains. “Man has a body as well as a soul, and the whole of man, soul and
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Making the Case for Handmade Gifts 0
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink
- December 10, 2025
My cousin gave me a handmade card for one of my childhood birthdays. It wasn’t just any handmade card: it was made on thick, glossy paper, complete with baubles and expensive, elegant stickers. If I remember correctly, that was her only gift to me that year. But that didn’t matter: I treasured the card, often
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Do School Book Bans Infringe on Parental Authority?1
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured, MomThink
- December 9, 2025
When I hear the phrase “book ban,” the image that comes to mind is something straight out of “Fahrenheit 451” – books torn from private residences, doused in kerosene, and thrown onto a blazing funeral pyre of intellectual tradition, removing all certainty that such works ever existed. Yet when American media uses the phrase “book
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